Yes, I've gone and produced a DVD: The Scales of Poi! A distilation of everything I know about poi. It's loveable. It's funny. It's... well, I can only say so much, because I made it, so you need to order it (yes, YOU) so you can say how great it is, and people will listen to you.

My God, it was a lot of work. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Other people would be more sensible and make a DVD in a sensible way. Me? No. I have to have three camera angles. I have to put myself in a position to turn 24 hours of footage into a 90 minute DVD.

And now it's done! Did I say that already?

Are you excited? I am. Can you tell that I'm excited?

I don't know whether I'm itching to make another one, so I can do it the easy way, rather than the do-everything-the-hard-way way.

Oh, wait, I'm itching to get back to practice. Working on the computer is most definitely different than practicing. I'll just... Oh, shoot. That's right, I'm homeless and I owe the bank money. Should I have listened to my mother? Of course not! I'd be a terrible stripper.

Posted:10th Oct 2006Sounds like your running into the problem I faced about five years ago. You don't know me Nick but I hope to meet you one day. My name is Mark from smack dab middle of California, Fresno. Ever since I google searched for Poi vids and found Deverishly, your constant persuit at taking Poi to the next level has inspired me. I had a choice to go into the Marines, or go full time freestyle footbagger. Well, the world champ in the 2001 world competition only won 100 bucks so the Marines it was. (out now) There just isn't that much money in the alternative sports. It is so damn underground that all I have wanted to do is get these alternative sports exposure. It's too bad Bill Gates never got interested in Poi. What we need Nick, is some rich dude to put some money into the art/sport. That is how footbag got the exposure, that is what you have done for Poi. Except you say your not rich:-( As long as you hold onto your patience and know that people are keeping in touch with your site, me, among many others are your fans. I am always looking forward to seeing what you are going to come up with next. It's great how many conversations can spawn through common interests in activities. Such as how you mentioned in one of your readings how not all people get into poi because you can set them on fire. Let me tell you that it has amazed me with what it has done for my upper body physique. I have gained five pounds in just arm strength from doing poi since the first time I picked them up in March. It has motivated me to pick the footbag up and start freestyling again. Well, I could go on for hours and hours but I am sure you have some Poi to spin and spinners to admire. Take care and I hope to meet you.Mark

Posted:10th Oct 2006I've only been doing this for about 4 months now and when I got my copy of this scales dvd I was really impressed by the good vibes & enthusiasum. Hell somepeople are rather protective of there techneques.I remember when I was at the rainbow gathering this year (which is where I was first exposed to this wonderful art) There was this one spinner there that completely astounded me with this this move he did where it looked like the poi (there were 3 wicks on the chain) were literally passing through his arms. imagine the move threading the needle only instead of moving your hand down to avoid your forearm it was like it passed right through.(and no I was not on anysort of hallucinagen at least not at that point in time) anyways it amazed me and everyone else that watched as well. I find him the next day to ask him about this strange move, When I asked him about it he looked at me and laughed. ( I had asked him to show me again during the day ) he then proceeded to tell me that "a magician never reveals his secrets" or whatever... sorry for that winded story...

Posted:27th Mar 2007Yeah, we had some troubles with the shipper at the Canadian end. It's a pain because I'm getting my brother to deal with it all, and so there are too many people trying to communicate with too many other people. HOP is being very patient

...but they should get there soon I hope!!!

Meanwhile, I'm drafting the next DVD. I've got some great ideas to make this one even more fun. Hee hee hee. Oh, I hope it works. It will be like learning poi and watching The Matrix at the same time

Posted:28th Mar 2007Rumors. Vicious rumors. There is not, I repeat, not, a video of me stripping sitting on my hard drive. I would never, ever, take my clothes off and spin poi in a desperate attempt to busk online. This video doesn't exist and I certainly won't be releasing it on playpoi.com soon.

Posted:11th Apr 2007Ok, here's the thing: If I had such a slanderous item, which I do not (being the virtuous and self-respecting poi artist I am), then I would probably want to wait until I'd launched the new website before launching said video, as such a video could only possibly be part of a poiticipation campaign, and right now I don't have enough ways that people could actually poiticipate.

Posted:11th Apr 2007Ok, first off, I definitely am not telling Bluecat to NOT release that particular video, and it has nothing to do with a certain Austrian fire spinner telling me I have to do a better job at hiding my "noodle."

I am, however, releasing some other videos soon, and if I did have this video you're all going on about, which I don't, I would hopefully release it in a few weeks.